Are you sure you actually spun up Luna sub agents? Sol up until recently could only spin up Sol and Terra agents and would even name them "Luna" despite not being so, you can check in your usage whether it was Luna or not. I believe now it's fixed though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vj3hhn/wait_so_sol_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1vp0rig/sol_can_fina...

The one time I tried asking Sol to use subagents for a small project, it took a surprisingly long time, used up the entire usage limit in one go, and basically failed the project.

I’m pretty sure that plain Sol, serially, could have finished the task faster, cheaper, and far more accurately. I’m also pretty sure that any competent subagent orchestration could have gotten it done with even very simple subagents quickly and cheaply.

(Is it really that hard to set up a handful of subagents that all use the same initial context and to load that context with what actually matters? The APIs certainly support it.)

I only use Luna (max), I find it very rarely just reasons. In fact, I find it reasons too little.

I've had the same observation that Luna will quickly fill up its context window with reasoning, but it surprisingly hasn't been a problem really.

It will cycle through like 3 /compacts, complete the complex goal successfully, and cost me like 1% of my weekly usage on the $20 plan.

Edit: this is me using Luna directly, not Sol as the taskmaster

Luna max is all I use. In my experience, it works really well for overnight tasks.

I feel the same. I just use it for planning and chatting. Not real coding work.

This is why I stop at xhigh.

If your code is complex enough for Luna Max to fail maybe you need to write a bit yourself so they can copy your idea